Bryan v. Werner’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.2d 233 · 1975
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Bounds v. Smith (1977), Peterkin H v. Jeffes H (1988)
30 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Wolff v. McDonnell · Procunier v. Martinez · Johnson v. Avery · Ex parte Hull
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e see no error in the district court's refusal to consider the merits of [plaintiff's] challenge to the adequacy of the law library. At the time of the district court decision, a class action challenging the adequacy of all Pennsylvania prison law libraries was pending in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.... Since plaintiff was a member of that class and thus would be bound by the decision in that case, the district court properly concluded that it would be a waste of judicial effort to decide the same issue being decided in [that] case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an inmate's expectation of keeping a particular prison job amounts [neither] to a 'property' or 'liberty' interest entitled to protection under the due process clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“operate in fact in such a way as to impede access to the courts by prisoners”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.